Hi all,
Here is a thread for my most recent project. If you would like to order product you may post here or in the alternate thread.
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Thanks
Congrats on this excellent, easily implemented Mag LED solution.
You're a busy man on the lathe. Great product!
Very, very nice solution! I wish all the success it deserves! :crown:
Those look great! Sure they will all sell quick. Good job VoB
They seem a little too good to be true… 700 lumens from a 3C Maglite running alkalines? Is that at the emitter or out the front? How long can it maintain that output?
Hey benz,
Welcome to the party :)
Your right on only 3C alkalines the outupt would be at a somewhat reduced rate. 4 alk cells would probly get close to peek output.
The 700 lumen potential is an OTF rating. I dont really know what the capacity of alkaline cells is at the amperage needed for this dropin so I can say what the runtime would be.
Man those look awesome! Love that UI too…so versatile.
Given the similarities between this unit and the Malkoff XM-L2 drop-ins (at least in terms of the emitters and type of driver), I’m guessing that performance on alkalines will be quite similar to the Malkoff units. In other words, you can still get pretty good performance wih alkalines for a time if you want to use alkalines. But ultimately, performance and runtime will be at its best with NiMH.
Some members have been asking me about output on different cell types ( from both forum), so I did some output testing on these. Please understand these are not done in a $5000 sphere, however I have done my best to get as accurate of a reading as possible. These figures are meant to show the best and worst case scenario.
Here is a picture of my setup.
My "sphere" is a Styrofoam ice chest with a hole cut in it to fit a mag head. The sensor is bolted on the front wall next the the light so that focus of the lights has less effect on the over all measurement.
CPF member Ti force has a calibrated sphere that he used to measure the output of one of my shorty mags for me. I use the exact mag fully charged to calibrate from.
All the maglites used to test the Adventure Sport Super Bulb™ were 100% stock accept for the BULB. No resistance mods of any kind were made, and the factory plastic lens was what I used for testing.
Starting from least to greatest.
3 Alkaline C cell
1m.....652
2m.....632
3m.....610
5m.....584
10m...528
15m...494
20m...464
30m...423
40m...381
50m...326
3 Alkaline D Cell
1m.....747
2m.....728
3m.....713
5m.....692
10m...647
15m...618
20m...594
30m...560
40m...531
50m...502
3 C NIMH cells
1m.....850
2m.....842
3m.....839
5m.....831
10m...818
15m...807
20m...797
4 D NIMH cells
1m.....842
2m.....missed
3m.....834
5m.....826
10m...802
15m...784
20m...781
I also tested a few other lights for reference to the calibration of the sphere.
Quark AA2 X..........297 @ 1 minute Factory rated @ 280
Ultrafire C8............398 @ 1 minute Factory rated @ yeah right!
Ultrafire C8 on IMR..532 @ 1 minute
4D factory maglite...62 @ 1 minute Factory rated @ 98
Please let me know what you guys think. I value your feedback immensely!!